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  1. WHY COMPUTER SCIENCE/PROGRAMMING (using Scratch)

  • BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS
    • Improve Attention Span
    • Better Assessments
    • Self exploration and self expresion, creativity and choice
    • Project Based
    • Long term job "security" in a competitive world market
    • Social Connections
    • Allowing youth to focus on the problems they want to solve, not the mechanic of programming (building-block programming

  • BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS
  • BENEFITS FOR ADMINISTRATORS

  • Programming Concepts and Skills Supported in SCRATCH (from scratch website)

    • Problem-Solving and Project Design Skills
      • logical reasoning
      • debugging problems
      • developing ideas from intital concepts to completed projects
      • sustatined focus and perseverance

    • Fundamental Ideas About Computers and Programming
      • Computer Programs tell the computer precisely what to do, step-by-step
      • Writing computer programs doesn't require special expertise, just clear and careful thinking